The planets probably should be used at the beginning of glyph lines. Venus should then have position 3 which then will determine the rest.

It is not certain that this model was used for all lines and all tablets. Neither seems it applicable beyond the 20 first glyphs in a line. 20 is 4 * 5 and a suitable number for measuring the 'square of the month'. The remaining nights could be 'outside' the order of light. I.e., inside the darkness of mother earth or the hare paega (where Moon does not shine).

With Venus as number 3 Mars will appear only twice. He could therefore represent the two light phases of the Moon. Mars is effectively cut off from appearing beyond Moon in her 20th position. 7 + 7 + 6 = 20.

20 is one less than 21, which is 3 weeks. Once again number 3 occurs, and we must remember that we are counting time - when we count day number 20 it is at the very end of that days, and when we count day number 1 a whole day has passed away without receiving any number.

Consequently the day at the very beginning (in the dark zero time) must be Mars. He is the one who brings fire (order, logic, rules, etc) by enabling us to say '1'.

Maybe then should follow another 6 glyphs, because 7 + 7 + 6 + 6 = 26.

The first fortnight will end after 15 days are in the past, the 26th day after 27 days are in the past. Considering the dark first day will change the time number from even to odd. That does not makes sense. Instead we must move the even number of days one step ahead. Or move the first dark zero day one step back, to the back side of the tablet.

Maybe we should then continue with 6-glyph periods until the day is over, with a final 5 + 5 completing it at 48 (= 20 + 28 = 2 * 24 = 4 * 12 = 8 * 6):

A triplet of ihe tau could mean that Venus should be at Aa1-52, with Saturn at maitaki and Sun at vae. This is congruent with (52 - 3) / 7 = 7 weeks counted from her appearance at day 3 - or 4 counted from Mars. If Aa1-48 is the last Sun day, it cannot be a dark day, therefore we cannot go back in time and locate a dark day at Aa1-48, we must put an extra ihe tau before Mercury and Jupiter.

At vae in Aa1-54 Metoro said te ua roa. At Aa1-49--51 he said e ihe ka pipiri i te henua, which may mean that he distinguished between Aa1-49 (e ihe) and the two following glyphs (ka piriri i te henua, 'joined to the earth').

From Aa1-14 (a Mars day) there are 6 weeks to Aa1-56. Why should we eliminate Mars if we count with 6 instead of 7? Logic says it should be the Moon who must go first, she is the 1st of the pillars of spring. Moon defines the limit of the Sun and he should not be limited during daytime.

But she may reappear when night falls. Or at noon - in which case Moon should disappear again at midnight. However, the toa glyphs show that sun is the topic also during the night.

48 = 2 * 7 + 4 * 6 + 2 * 5 = 14 + 24 + 10. But 14 + 10 = 24 = 4 * 6, which means 48 = 8 * 6. The topic seems to be the Sun from Aa1-1 up to the end at Aa1-48.

Then there should be 4 glyphs added, that is the rule when a regulated season has ended. 52 * 7 = 364 is also 4 more than 360. And 7 * 56 = 392 (= 364 + 28):